The apps every entrepreneur should have on their phone
An app on your phone is unlikely to make or break your business, unless the business is the app itself. Certain programmes though can make the day-to-day of an entrepreneurial life that little bit easier and a whole lot more efficient. Make your smartphone your most important employee by filling it up with the right apps – these 5 would be the place to start, no matter what industry you’re in.
eSign Manager DC
Business transacting is moving increasingly online. Although this saves valuable time that otherwise would have been spent travelling to and from signing sessions, it can be a little tedious in itself; trying to scribble a legible signature with a computer mouse etc. etc.. eSign from Adobe, makes this painless process, saving your signature and allowing you to sign documents securely and effortlessly. It also records document history creating an automatic audit trail for future use.
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Mint
Manage your money on the go, personal and business, with Mint on your smartphone. Create budgets, receive alerts for unusual charges and get custom tips for saving money in the future. Having all of your bills and financial information in one place and coherently visible could be the difference between good cashflow and unwanted overspends.
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Having no time to read important documents when you see them is the bane of many an entrepreneur’s existence – that and an overfull email inbox. Pocket allows you to bookmark articles, videos, documents and the like when you see them to look at later, even when you’re offline. So if you need to read an article about the market or catch up on video content from your closest competitor, you can do so during the commute or internet downtimes.
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Humin
Networking is one of the single most important aspects to business success, yet with so many handshakes and air kisses given it can be hard to track who exactly is who at a later date. Humin saves your contact list in a way that you can remember them, allowing you to note down information such as where and when you met them, when you last emailed or called them etc. This is then searchable so even if you’re struggling to recall a name, it’s easy to jog your memory.
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CamCard
Business cards: essential but all too easy to lose. Ensure that crucial contact isn’t lost forever by scanning their card with CamCard. It intuitively captures the contact information on a card and saves it to your smartphone as well as syncing and storing it to the cloud. The app also offers a way to exchange e-card to finally take the contact swap paperless and into the 21st century.
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